Secondary or storage battery.



G. H..CLARE. SECONDARY on STORAGE BATTERY. APPLICATION FILED MAY 4. 1908.

949,146. I Patented Feb. 15,1910.

I liii u ll F- g l Fl 2-2- CHARLES H. CLARE, OF STRATHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

SECONDARY on STORAGE BATTERY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15, 1910.

Application filed May 4, 1908. Serial no. 430,648. v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. OLARE, 0f

'Stra tham, in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Secondary or Storage Batteries, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

My invention relates to an improvement in secondary or storage batteries and pertains essentially to an improved form or type of frame or grid forming an electrode, which frame or grid bears or has incontact therewitlr an active material or material ada ted to become active in the operation of the attery.

The object of my inventionis to provide a frame or grid which shall have an increased surface presented or exposed to the active material; with which surface the active material will be kept in continual contact during the operation of the battery, and a frame or grid, also, in which the exposed surface and active material or point of activity between the same will be uniformly subjected throughout to the influence of the electrolyte or acid and to which the electrolyte or acid will be quickly and easily conducted so as to have as it were a direct access thereto.

My invention can best be seen and understood by reference -to the drawings, in which'- Figure 1 shows the frame partly in side elevation and partly in vertical section on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 shows the frame partly in end elevation and partly in cross section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 show partly inside elevation and partly in.'cr0ss vertical section the memberor holder to which special reference will hereinafter be made, in Fig. 3. the member being shown uncoated and 1n Fig. 4 coated.

Referring to the drawings :-A is the frame or grid representing for purposes of illustration :1 battery plate or electrode and is preferably made of lead having a small percentage of antimony. Extending transversely through the frame are a series of openings or holes preferably cylindrical in form. In these openings formed in the frame are contained members, or what may be termed holders, B, inasmuch as they bear or carry active material C or material adapted to become active during the operation of the battery, and maintain or hold the same in contact with the interior exposed surfaces forming the respective openings in the frame or grid. The holders are adapted also to cooperate with the frame at the ends of the openings therein in such manner that the active material cannot escape from the ends of the openings, said members having also the further adaptation that an electrolyte or exciting fluid may have access through the same to theaetive material. In their preferable embodiment or construction the members or holders Ball conform to the 0 enings in the frame and are made in the orm of a spool, the body portion 6 of the holder being contained within the opening in the frame, being smaller than the opening so that the active material may be contained between such body and the adjacent surface of the frame forming the opening.

At the ends of the body portion of the holder there are provided flanges b by which the holder may cooperate with" the frame at the ends of the openings in it. The flanges of the holders are also preferably so arranged as to cooperate with the frame within the openings therein at the ends of the openings, the flanges having such degree of extension that the holder at either end will be of substantially the same width or diameter as the opening in the frame so as to fit snugly therein. ccordingly when the members are coated with active material the entire coated member or holder may be readily. inserted within the hole or opening formed in the frame and the active material be maintained in proper coordination with the surface of the opening, the flanges on the holder at either end thereof actin keep the active material from escaping rom the ends of the opening during the operation of the battery, the body of the holder and said flanges forming, as it were, with the adjacent surface of the frame or grid 9. closed pocket in which the active material is contained. p A

In order that the electrolyte may have free and direct access and uniform application 'to the active material and all parts of the exposed surface forming the hole or opening in the frame or grid, the member or holder B is provided with a hole or opening therein into which the electrolyte may enter and which hole or opening preferably extends entirely through the member, or holder so that the electrolyte or exciting fluid 1 mayenter and flow through the same. The member or holder is also" preferably [made of some porous material or ware sothat as the excitin fluid or electrolyte enters into or flows t rough the member'or..-holder it may pass through the wall ,o'f the member or older and so have access toithe active material and said exposed surface of the frame or grid. 1 I

In addition to thofadvantages above described in fulfilment of the ob ect of my invention, it should be noted, also, that a further advantage of the construction resides in the fact that by using the porous members or holders with the active material on the outside thereof it will be a very diflicult matter for the active material to crush these holders during the operation of the battery, whereas if the active material were on the inside of the holder the holder would be very easily broken by .the expansion of the material.

Having thus fully described m invention, I claim and desire to secure by tters Patent of the United States :1-

1. A frame for a secondary or storage battery, said frame having therein a' plufility of openings, active material or material adapted to become active during the operation of the battery ap lied to the surfaces of said openings, and means within said openings and cooperating with said frame at the ends of said openings for holding said material in place, which means also is adapted to the end that an exciting fluid may have access through the same to said material. v

2. A frame for a secondar or storage battery having therein a plurality of o enings, active material or material adapte to become active durin the o eration of the battery applied to t e sur aces of said openings, and means capable of (permitting the assage of an exciting flui therethrough or holding said material in place against the surface of said openings, which means is adapted also to cooperate with said frame for preventing the escape of said materialfrom the ends of said openings.

3. A frame for a secondary or storage battery having formed therein an opening, and means capable of, permitting the passa e of an exciting fluid therethrough for ho din in place active material or material ada te to come active during the operation 0 the battery contained between said means and the surface forming said opening and which means is adapted a so to cotiperate with said frame at the end of said opening for preventing the escape of said material therefrom."

4. A frame formin an electrode for a storage battery, said rame having formed during the operation ofithebattery applied to said active material;

- come active during1 therein a plurality of openingjs, active material' or material adapted to ecome actlve tothe. surfacesof said;openings, an hollow porous members contained within sald openings adaptedto, hold. said active material and into the hollow 'ofwhich'members an excitin fluid 'may enter'to -lhave access 5. A frame for a secondary or stora battery, said frame'havin'g formed therein a plurality of openings extending through sald frame active ,material or material adapted to become activeduring the o eration of the battery in coiirdinatlon wit the surfaces of said openin bers for maintaining sald'material in place, said members being open from end to end whereby an exciting fluid may enter and pass through the same and have access to said active material.

6. A hollow orous member having a body ortion and anges at either end thereof or use in an openin formed in a secondary or storage battery p ate for holding in place active material or material adapted to bethe operat1on of the battery applied to t e surface of said openin A frame for a secondary or storage battery having formed therein an openmg extending throu h the same, an active material ormaterial a apted to become active during the operation of the batte in roper coordination with the expose sur ace form-- ing said opening, and a flanged member for maintaining sald active material in place during the operation of the battery and ada ted also to theend that an excitin fluid mayenter and pass through the wafi thereof to said active material or exposed surface forming the opening in said frame.

8. A frame for a secondary or storage battery having an opening formed therein, active material or material adapted tqi become active during the operation 'of the battery in pro er coordination with the exposed surface ormingsaid' opening, and a flanged member for maintai said material in place durin the operation of the battery and adapte also to the end that an excitin fluid may enter and pass through the wal thereof to said material or exposed surface formin the opening in said frame. a 9. A ollow orous member for use in an opening .forme in a frame fora secondary or storage battery, said member having a body portion and flanges at either end thereof, and a coating of active material or ma- .terial adapted to become active during the operation of the battery applied to the exand porous memterior of said body portion between said the same, a hollow porous tubular memberapplied to and maintained during the operahaving a body portion and flanges at either end thereof, and an active material or-material adapted to become active in theo eration' of the battery coating the body 0 said member between its flanges and wh1 ch membet is located within an opening in said frame whereby the active materialwill be tion of the battery in proper co6rdination 10 with the exposed surface formmg the opening in said frame. I i

CHARLES H. CLARE.

In the presence of- K. T. MULVEY, J. P. CLARE. 

